Caroline B. Owen

Caroline B. Owen is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Milan-Bicocca's Department of Physics 'Giuseppe Occhialini', where she collaborates with Professor Davide Gerosa to advance gravitational wave astrophysics. Previously, she earned her Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Illinois under Professor Nicolás Yunes, focusing on gravitational waves as tools for exploring fundamental physics.

Her research bridges gravitational wave astronomy, dark matter constraints, and modified gravity theories. She investigates how neutron stars accumulate dark matter through galactic motion, using gravitational wave observations of compact binaries to indirectly characterize dark matter properties. Additionally, she studies systematic biases in parameter estimation caused by waveform model inaccuracies and mathematical structures of black holes in non-Einsteinian gravity frameworks.

Caroline's teaching experience spans graduate and undergraduate courses, including Electricity and Magnetism (calculus and algebra-based) at the University of Illinois and Montana State University. While no scientific awards are documented, her work on waveform modeling and dark sector constraints exemplifies rigorous contributions to gravitational wave data analysis and theoretical cosmology.